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March 8, 2016
Decide Where to Show WordPress Widgets with Dynamic Widgets
What if I need to show a WordPress widget in one page, but disable in the others?
Dynamic Widgets is a useful plugin that will provide control over where widgets are displayed based on several settings, such as pages, URLs, categories, roles, etc.
Continue reading this post to discover how easy is to control your WordPress widgets by using Dynamic Widgets.
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Dynamic Widgets is a useful plugin that will provide control over where widgets are displayed based on several settings, such as pages, URLs, categories, roles, etc.
Continue reading this post to discover how easy is to control your WordPress widgets by using Dynamic Widgets.
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The Easiest Way to Embed Videos in Drupal 8
Video Embed is a very useful module for Drupal 8 users.
Video Embed creates a field type that allows you to embed videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Vine and many other sources. All you have to do is enter the video URL and this module will do the rest.
Video Embed will create a thumbnail preview, control the autoplay settings and also ensure that the video is responsive.
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Video Embed creates a field type that allows you to embed videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Vine and many other sources. All you have to do is enter the video URL and this module will do the rest.
Video Embed will create a thumbnail preview, control the autoplay settings and also ensure that the video is responsive.
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March 7, 2016
How to Fix the Database Connection Error in Joomla
Do you have a blank page on your Joomla site showing this message?
Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.
This means that Joomla can't connect to your database. Because of your site's data is stored there, is highly important to fix the connection to get your site back.
Continue reading this post to know how to fix the database connection error.
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Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.
This means that Joomla can't connect to your database. Because of your site's data is stored there, is highly important to fix the connection to get your site back.
Continue reading this post to know how to fix the database connection error.
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March 4, 2016
Supercharge Your Joomla Page Views With Pagination
One technique that websites increase the number of page views (and so the amount of advertising they can sell), it to split up their articles into multiple pages.
Have you ever seen one of those top 10 lists where each item is on a different page?
One OSTraining member wanted to do the same thing with Joomla.
I'm going to show you how to split your articles by using page breaks and a simple template override.
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Have you ever seen one of those top 10 lists where each item is on a different page?
One OSTraining member wanted to do the same thing with Joomla.
I'm going to show you how to split your articles by using page breaks and a simple template override.
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Split Joomla Articles into Many Pages, Ideal for Viral Content
If you own a blog and want to increase the number of clicks a user made while reading your content, this tutorial is for you.
Increase the statistics for your Joomla blog by splitting your articles into several pages to get a similar result that those popular sites with viral posts.
I'll show you how to split your articles with page breaks and a simple template override. Let's start...
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Increase the statistics for your Joomla blog by splitting your articles into several pages to get a similar result that those popular sites with viral posts.
I'll show you how to split your articles with page breaks and a simple template override. Let's start...
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Discover Which Sites Are Copying your Content
Copyscape is a great online tool to know if other websites copied your content, or if you copied to them.
For SEO purposes, it's always good idea to keep an eye on whether your content is being ripped off.
In this short post, I'll share with you how to use Copyscape to look for duplicated content on other sites.
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For SEO purposes, it's always good idea to keep an eye on whether your content is being ripped off.
In this short post, I'll share with you how to use Copyscape to look for duplicated content on other sites.
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Use OSDownloads for Autoresponders in Joomla
If you use Joomla for marketing automation, we have a new OSDownloads feature that you'll love.
OSDownloads now integrates with MailChimp Groups. This means you can send targeted emails to people who download a particular file.
For example, if someone downloads OSDownloads, we can send them a series of follow-up emails about that extension.
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OSDownloads now integrates with MailChimp Groups. This means you can send targeted emails to people who download a particular file.
For example, if someone downloads OSDownloads, we can send them a series of follow-up emails about that extension.
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How to Add Barcodes to a Drupal POS System
When one OSTraining member asked about adding barcodes to a Drupal 7 site for use as part of a Point-of-sale (POS) system.
We never realised just how complex this could be. While Drupal is well known for it's diverse module collection several barcode modules are available. However as need for this kind of system has reduced over the years maintenance of these modules has started to waver.
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We never realised just how complex this could be. While Drupal is well known for it's diverse module collection several barcode modules are available. However as need for this kind of system has reduced over the years maintenance of these modules has started to waver.
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March 3, 2016
How to Embed Ustream Videos in Joomla
Ustream is really popular way to publish videos on the web.
Did you know that you can add Ustream videos to your Joomla site, using just a URL?
You can do that with the OSEmbed extension. Here's how easy it is to make Ustream work with Joomla ...
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Did you know that you can add Ustream videos to your Joomla site, using just a URL?
You can do that with the OSEmbed extension. Here's how easy it is to make Ustream work with Joomla ...
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March 2, 2016
Create a View of Organic Group Members
An OSTraining member was setting up the Organic Groups module in Drupal.
They asked us if it was possible to show the members of one particular group. Yes, that's possible using Views.
In fact, Views ships with a default view that is very similar to this task. We're going to clone that view and make some small changes.
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They asked us if it was possible to show the members of one particular group. Yes, that's possible using Views.
In fact, Views ships with a default view that is very similar to this task. We're going to clone that view and make some small changes.
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